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"ref": "2015, Charles W. Jones, Hydrangeas on the Lanai",
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"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
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"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
"word": "strusciare"
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"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
"word": "sfregare"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
"word": "arrastar"
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"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
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"word": "ша́ркать"
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"roman": "voločítʹ nógi",
"sense": "to scrape the feet while walking",
"word": "волочи́ть но́ги"
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"word": "scuff mark"
}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"text": "Someone left scuff marks in the sand.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Charles W. Jones, Hydrangeas on the Lanai",
"text": "He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall.",
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}
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},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "scraping, usually with one's feet",
"word": "horzsolás"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "scraping, usually with one's feet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sfregamento"
}
],
"word": "scuff"
}
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"word": "scruff"
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"A scurf; a scale."
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"ref": "1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?",
"text": "One of the biggest and most redoubted of the Black Family was now in that seat of dignity, and, refusing surlily to yield it at Jasper's rude summons, was seized by the scuff of the neck, and literally hurled on the table in front.",
"type": "quotation"
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"The back part of the neck; the scruff."
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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}
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